Divinity II: Dragon Knight Saga Dated, Shot

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Earlier this month Jim posted about the re-release of Divinity II, with overhauled graphics, and a whole new campaign called Flames of Vengeance. The pack, titled Divinity II: The Dragon Knight Saga now has a release date, and some shiny new screenshots. It’s out at the beginning of November, in two weeks time. Which is either the 4th or the 5th – for some reason they’re being ambiguous. Take a look below to see if it will tempt you. It didn’t tempt us at the beginning of this year, but there’s a lot that’s new this time around.

The new shots do look rather remarkable. The concern is that the game will remain as much of a grind. Still, feast your eyes on these, and click your mouse buttons on them for hugeousness.

I actually really enjoyed the first third or so of Divinity 2 up until they gave me the power to turn into a dragon. From there the game became a festering blight. They allow you to become a dragon and then the very next zone suddenly sprouts no-fly zones over 90% of the map. Then they don’t allow you to attack ground based enemies in dragon form by suddenly removing them from the map. Then the bugs kick in and when you go from dragon form back into ground form they don’t respawn.

The expansion supposedly overhauls alot of stuff including the fundamentals such as mechanics, balance, etc. NOTE: confusingly, there are two versions of the game on offer. One of them is the expansion by itself, which requires the original game to play and the second is the original game + expansion integrated. NOTE however that the second package is MORE COMPLETE than the first one. This is because the devs wanted to keep the saves from the original game compatible even with the expansion installed afterwards. This means you do not get stuff like better eye candy and some of the more bigger changes. So what if you want to start a new game? Unfortunately, the extra stuff from the COMPLETE version isn’t in the expansion-only version. The extra stuff may or may not be made available for download for free in the future but even if it is, expect gigs of data to download.

TLDR: DO NOT buy divinity 2 (by itself) from gamersgate now or you will kick yourself. Buy the COMPLETE package when it becomes available.

I loved the original and have played it through often, as recently as earlier this year, but I gave up on this one pretty quickly after the tutorial combat sections in the demo. Just god awful, terrible combat mechanics. With this and the atrocious Beyond Divinity, it seems like the original Divine Divinity is going to be a real outlier for these guys.

Is there some kind of discount version for people who bought the first one? Something like the Loyalty version of Stalker Pripyat would make rebuying that bit more tempting. It’s just that I recently bought a brand new copy of this for the whopping great price of £5.70!